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Haul For The Week Of July 21-28 - Pic Heavy

I know last week, when I first mentioned the whole Swatch Sunday/Haul posts, I said to not expect them every week.. But.. um.. Well, this week is going to be a write-off. I bought a wealth of polish (ok, some of them were purchased the previous week, but just arrived to me.. you know what I mean!)

Where to start.. We will start with Wednesdays goodies. My friend Jazz had contacted Tara of Pirate Polish and was like 'I'm going to be picking up two polish from her after work today...' Of course I had to get in on the action! I knew I had a wealth coming to me.. but these two polish that Jazz was going to pick up, I needed to have them. I quickly sent a text off to Tara to let her know to have another pair ready for me. I am forever grateful for my lack of will power.

Mother. Of. God. Seriously! LOOK AT THESE GEMS! I may or may not have it on direct authority that a post featuring Sea Monster will be up on Monday. Just saying.

First off.. the packaging.. really?! Stunning! Also, I wanted to make a note of this (and clearly prove to all of you how crazy I am) - but, you know how 'nail mail' usually sort of has a nail polish-y smell? The whole package smelled like bubble gum. I was kind of obsessed with that fact. Yes, I'm very strange.

So. I ordered the Summer of 199X Part II "Rainbow Honey presents its newest collection, Summer of 199X featuring 10 new colors inspired by the 1995 SNES hit, Earthbound." I didn't play that particular game.. but now I'm kind of crushed that I didn't. At least I have these gems in my collection.

On top of the collection, which consists of Magic Cake, Mint Flavor, Apple Kid, Tessie, and I Miss You - I decided to wait 1 hour before putting in my order because a limited edition polish was going to become available.. and it looked magical.. So I waited the hour, promptly put Special World in to my cart, along with Summer Juice & Vanilla Dreams Cuticle Balm and ran off to pay... Ohhhhh but wait.. Because I spent $50+, I got to add Summer Blossom in for free. Awesome! Then, when I opened the package, a mini vial of The Kracken was included (which is a polish in Part I of the 199X collection - rad!).

I am honestly beyond excited to get these all swatched up and play with them. Magic Cake and Mint Flavor are just screaming my name right now while working on this post.

Now I just have some bottle shots of them for you all..

Last, but definitely not least, my NPC order.

Here we have China Glaze Bottoms Up & Highlight of My Summer (look at the perfect minty shade!!!!! !!!!), and Essie In The Cab-Ana (I'm less crazy about this colour now that I have it in my possession - must swatch - the photo makes me think of China Glaze For Audrey aka the bane of existence).

I also used some of my points and picked up OPI Gargantuan Green Grape (more on this in a moment..) and a england Jane Eyre. I also decided to splurge and get piCture pOlish Cosmos as well. I have wanted it for awhile.. That is my justification!

What the freak is this?! According to both bottles, it is OPI Gargantuan Green Grape. See, when I saw it listed as an available polish to use my points on, I thought 'great! my other bottle is on its last legs, and I adore that polish - might as well replace it'. Did they change the formulation of it?! I'm so saaaad! Like, gutted. Sure, the one on the left isn't a bad colour (I showed my sister, I am using her wording), but they are not the same. Siiiiigh.

So. Yup. I went a little polish crazy. I don't need to buy any more for a long while. I'm also now over 500 bottles. Yiiiiikes. (Not really, I'm quite pleased with this.. To be completely honest).

I hope you enjoyed ogling my new goodies - see you all again soon with another post!!

I just realized I still have a couple post photos stocked up. Sigh. I haven't even uploaded all that is currently living on my camera. The fear is real.

That is for another day. Mayhaps this weekend.

Until then.

I think I said it at some point on my blog, but I feel like 2017 is going to be the year that I constantly do faux marble nails. Note: not watermarbling. I have given in to that failed activity far too many times.

No, I mean the classy kind of marble. You know.

This time, I did it in reverse, because, why not?

It counts, right?

Ugh. I love it.

I used:China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base CoatEssie LicoriceFormula X White MatterAcetoneBrushSeche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
All right, that is all for today. See you all again soon (I promise).

My sole mission was to make the wounds look as gnarly and gooey as possible (when I sent my sister some behind the scenes photos, she liked the original look.. but I literally told her I opted to make them 'gooier' - legit scientific term)

Anytime I can destroy my polished nails to make wounds is a great day to me!